Comment on UMaine’s Shea earns family bragging rights in overtime win against Boston College

University of Maine senior right wing Patrick Shea’s father, Neil, played 135 games for Boston College between 1982 and 1986. But the younger Shea earned family bragging rights on Saturday night. Shea scored with just 48 seconds left in overtime to give the Black Bears their second consecutive Hockey East overtime win over the nation’s fourth-ranked Eagles, 3-2, at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. UMaine won Friday night’s game 4-3. UMaine’s fifth consecutive win over the Eagles spanning two seasons improved its record to 12-9-4 overall and 6-7-2 in Hockey East. Boston College, which had won 13 of its previous 14 games, fell to 15-7 and 9-5, respectively. Junior goalie Jeremy Swayman made 36 saves, the 12th time this season he has stopped at least 35 shots in a game. Freshman Spencer Knight wound up with 22 stops for the Eagles. Senior center Julius Mattila staked Boston to a 1-0 lead with a power play goal at the 17:53 mark of the first period, his seventh goal of the season, but UMaine junior defenseman Veli-Matti Tiuraniemi equalized with a shot from the midpoint on the power play just 56 seconds later. It was his second goal of the year. Senior left wing and captain Mitch Fossier fired home a cross-ice pass from Doherty on the power play in the second period, his sixth, but senior right wing Graham MacPhee tied it up 9:14 into the third period with his fourth when his shot deflected in off a UMaine stick. Shea’s goal was his fourth of the season and three of them have been game-winners. “He’s got ice in his veins.